Luzerne County has new information technology director

Ray Kase has been hired as Luzerne County government’s new facts technological innovation director.

The posture had been vacant because Mauro DiMauro resigned Dec. 16. County 911 GIS Supervisor David Skoronski experienced been filling in as temporary director because March.

Kase stated he owned an IT consulting small business generally doing work with college districts in latest a long time and formerly labored for 20 a long time in IT administration positions for school districts all over the condition.

Originally immersed in an assessment of county staff members and technology assist wants, Kase said he is now seriously focused on two crucial projects connected to community connectivity in properties and servers that keep county knowledge and courses.

A council bulk had voted in January to earmark up to $2.463 million in federal American Rescue Approach funding to go over a selection of hardware, software and products and services, which includes a virtualization infrastructure improve that IT reps experienced characterized as urgent.

Kase commended council for allocating the resources and claimed the venture has been properly made and contracted. The program was created by Skoronski and recent staffers, officers stated.

Council had agreed to fund a few supplemental IT section positions this 12 months, which signifies the department is now authorized for 12 positions. Kase mentioned only two positions remain open up. Applicants will soon be interviewed for a person, and the county is at this time looking for resumes for a network administrator opening, he said.

“I am delighted to be here. We have a great team, and we’re working on executing issues a little little bit differently below,” Kase mentioned.

He will obtain $90,000 on a yearly basis.

Council seat

Tuesday is the software deadline for Republicans interested in filling Robert Schnee’s vacant county council seat through 2023.

Future appointees have to be more than 18, have lived in the county for at least just one calendar year and have held a Republican voter registration dating again to November 2019, when Schnee was elected.

The individual appointed simply cannot hold any other elective community business office or a seat on any county board, authority or commission. Also prohibited is work with or payment from any contractor of the county or its boards, authorities and commissions.

Far more data is accessible on the council page at luzernecounty.org.

Council tentatively strategies to publicly interview applicants at 5 p.m. on May perhaps 31, with the expectation of voting on the appointment June 14.

Prison work

The county has entered into a $498,500 deal with Johnson Controls Hearth Security L.P. to substitute the hearth safety/notification procedure at the county prison on Water Avenue in Wilkes-Barre, according to an on-line posting.

The deal involves all components, set up, programming, commissioning and validation of the technique, it claimed.

Council experienced allotted federal American Rescue Program funding to spend for the job.

Key election

The county Election Board will commence its adjudication of the Could 17 principal election at 9 a.m. Monday in the county’s Penn Area Developing at 20 N. Pennsylvania Ave. in Wilkes-Barre.

Flagged mail ballots will be reviewed first, such as individuals with outer envelopes lacking signatures. Future, the board will handle provisional ballots solid at the polls to assure they have suitable signatures and that no mail ballots have been acknowledged from these voters.

The adjudication system will acquire time simply because the volunteer citizen board have to then critique produce-in votes.

Unofficial on the net success will be up to date when the adjudication is concluded, the board explained.

All success are unofficial until finally they are certified by the board.